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Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire

Red Menace

CHAPTER

Sessar - The Barbarism of Western Europe

Allison Allison: In Sessar's 1950 book, he says the barbarism of Western Europe has reached an incredibly high level. She says if Europe is indefensible, America is unforgivable. He argues that colonizers were swindlers, purgers, forgers, thieves, procures and murderers; not high-minded followers of Christ. We see this same macabre dancing while drenched in the blood of others every time someone in imperial core vomits out a defense of so-called Western civilization," she says.

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